Lamkin v. Burnett

On the twelfth day of July, 1877, appellees commenced suit before a justice of the peace, against appellant and one M. W. Lacy, to recover damages for an alleged deceit in the sale of a. lot of wool. The wool was purchased by appellant in Chicago, and was by him brought to Champaign, where it was delivered to Lacy to sell. Lacy took the same to appellees’ place of business, and offered the same for sale as his own property, and while there appellee, it seems, appeared upon the scene, and made some demonstrations towards purchasing it.

Through representations made at that time by Lacy, which it…